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1 " A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything. "
― Joë Bousquet
2 " Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. "
3 " Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth. "
4 " I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss. "
5 " An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo. "
6 " No one sees me changing, but who sees me? I am my own hiding place. "
7 " My wound existed before; I was born to embody it. "
8 " Yet a mysterious gate lay open within her shadow; and all my flesh was aware of black pathways and hovels and the silence one observes when the dead are near. "
9 " My wound existed before me, I was born to embody it. "
10 " In the world born from him, a person could now become anything. "
